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Chris Anderson (born 1957) is a British-American businessman who is the head of TED, a non-profit organization that provides idea-based talks and hosts an annual conference in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Previously he founded Future Publishing. Early life and education Anderson was born to British parents in Pakistan in 1957. His father was "an eye surgeon and evangelical Christian", and ran a mobile hospital in rural Pakistan. He has two sisters, and is the middle child.He studied at Woodstock School in the Himalayan mountains of Mussoorie, Uttarakhand, India briefly, before moving to Monkton Combe School, a boarding school near Bath, England. At the University of Oxford, Anderson initially studied physics before changing to philosophy, politics and economics, and graduated in 1978. Career Anderson began a career in journalism, working in newspapers and radio. He produced a world news service in the Seychelles.After returning to the UK in 1984, Anderson was captivated by the home-computer revolution. He became an editor at two of the UK's early computer magazines, Personal Computer Games and Zzap!64. A year later he founded Future Publishing with a $25,000 bank loan. The new company initially focused on specialist computer publications, but he eventually expanded it into other areas such as cycling, music, video games, technology and design. It doubled in size every year for seven years.In 1994, Anderson moved to the United States. There he developed Imagine Media, publisher of Business 2.0 magazine and creator of the popular video game users' website IGN. Anderson eventually merged Imagine and Future, taking the combined entity public in London in 1999, under the name Future US. At its peak, it published 150 magazines and websites and employed 2,000 people.Based on this financial success, Anderson established a private nonprofit organization, the Sapling Foundation. He wanted to find new ways to tackle tough global issues through media, technology, entrepreneurship and ideas. TED In 2001, the foundation acquired the TED Conference, then an annual meeting of luminaries in the fields of technology, entertainment and design, held in Monterey, California. Anderson left Future to work full-time on TED.He expanded the conference to cover all topics, including science, culture, academia, and business and key global issues. He added a fellows program, which now has some 400 alumni. He also established the TED Prize, which grants recipients $1 million to support their "one wish to change the world".In 2006, TED experimented with posting some of its talks on the Internet. Their viral success encouraged Anderson to develop the organization as a global media initiative devoted to "ideas worth spreading". In June 2015, the organization posted its 2,000th talk online. The talks are free to view. Through a related project, they have been translated into more than 100 languages with the help of thousands of volunteers from around the world. Viewership has grown to approximately one billion views per year.Continuing a strategy of "radical openness", in 2009 Anderson introduced the TEDx initiative. The TED organization provides free licences to local organizers who want to organize their own TED-like events. Requirements are that speakers must appear for free, and the events have to be non-profit, with talks released to TED through Commons Media. More than 10,000 such events have been held, generating an archive of 100,000 TEDx talks.Three years later, the TED-Ed program was launched. It offers free educational videos and tools to students and teachers.In 2012, Anderson was honored with an Edison Achievement Award for his commitment to innovation throughout his career.In May 2016, Anderson published a book titled TED Talks: The Official TED Guide to Public Speaking which offers tips and advice for public speaking. The book became a New York Times bestseller. Personal life Anderson married Lucy Evans. Together they had three daughters, Zoe, Elizabeth and Anna, before their divorce. The eldest, Zoe, died in 2010 at age 24, from carbon monoxide poisoning due to an improperly-installed bathroom boiler.In 2008, Anderson married Jacqueline Novogratz. She is the founder and CEO of Acumen, an organization that pioneered social impact investing. References. Discover the Chris Anderson popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Chris Anderson books.

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  • A Joosr Guide to... TED Talks by Chris Anderson synopsis, comments

    A Joosr Guide to... TED Talks by Chris Anderson

    Joosr

    In today's fastpaced world, it's tough to find the time to read. But with Joosr guides, you can get the key insights from bestselling nonfiction titles in less than 20 minutes. Whe...

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    Hoop Dreams Down Under

    Matt Logue

    Twentyfive homegrown Aussie superstars who have taken American basketball by storm. Ever since Luc Longley lit up the court as the first Australian to play in the NBA in 1991, Aust...

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    This Was CNN

    Kent Heckenlively, Cary Poarch & James O'keefe

    A CNN insider reveals what he saw behind the scenes at the cable news giant and the investigation that revealed even more shocking secrets.Cary Poarch started working at CNN in the...

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    The Wonder of Creation

    Louie Giglio

    In this captivating followup to the bestselling kids' devotionals Indescribable and How Great Is Our God, discover more mindblowing, faithbuilding scientific facts a...

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    Echo of the Dead

    Alex Gray

    THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING SERIES Don't miss the latest from Alex Gray. Book 20 in the Lorimer series, QUESTIONS FOR A DEAD MAN, is out now and Book 21, OUT OF DARKNESS, is avai...

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    Expected Goals

    Rory Smith

    Shortlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award 2022Football has always measured success by what you win, but only in the last twenty years have clubs started to thi...

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    Summary of the Book - The Long Tail by Chris Anderson

    Jaya Jha

    Summary of the famous book The Long Tail by Chris Anderson. In this book, author Chris Anderson introduces the theory of the Long Tail, a phenomenon that is changing economics and ...

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    Surviving the Next Big Asteroid and Being the Chosen Race

    Chris Andrew Anderson

    An asteroid crashing into Earth and wiping us all out is not something that probably keeps people up at night. We just don’t expect it to happen. And yet the dinosaurs weren’t expe...

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    Thunderbirds

    Marcus Hearn

    Celebrating over 50 years of the classic TV series, this beautiful, lavish hardback written by Thunderbirds expert Marcus Hearn. Contains exclusive, never before published behind ...

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    Possible Minds

    John Brockman

    Science world luminary John Brockman assembles twentyfive of the most important scientific minds, people who have been thinking about the field artificial intelligence for most of ...

  • Scrivere, narrare, parlare, pubblicare synopsis, comments

    Scrivere, narrare, parlare, pubblicare

    Sara Sacco

    La scritturalettura si dilata all’infinito, impegna l’uomo nella sua interezza, corpo e storia; è un atto panico.  Roland Barthes L’industria del libro è già obsoleta, ma l’ar...

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    The Sweetheart Sham

    Danielle Ellison

    In a small town like Culler, South Carolina, you guard your secrets like you guard your cobbler recipe: with your life. Georgia Ann Monroe knows a thing or two about secrets: she’s...

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    Questions for a Dead Man

    Alex Gray

    Your favourite Scottish detective returns in 2023 in an enthralling new mystery'Immensely exciting and atmospheric' ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH 'Move over Rebus' Daily Mail 'Exciting, p...

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    Afield

    Robert DeMott, Dave Smith & Richard Ford

    This marvelous collection features stories from some of America’s finest and most respected writers about every outdoorsman’s favorite and most loyal hunting partner: his dog. For ...

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    Chris Anderson und The Long Tail

    50Minuten

    In nur 50 Minuten The Long Tail verstehenDer amerikanische Journalist Chris Anderson verhalf der LongTailTheorie 2004 mit seinem Buch The Long Tail – der lange Schwanz zu einiger B...

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    The Official Encyclopedia of the Yellow Jersey

    Frédérique Galametz & Philippe Bouvet

    The musthave encyclopedia for all Tour de France fans.Celebrating the centenary of cycling's most iconic award, The Official Encyclopedia of the Yellow Jersey is a visually stunnin...

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    One of the Survivors

    Susan Shaw

    Fourteenyearold Joey Campbell knows that he is lucky to be one of the survivors of the school fire. But really, how much luck is involved when he is the lone student to stand up du...

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    Horror Films - Virgin Film

    James Marriott

    From the Slick horror of Alien, Scream and The Ring and the cult classics Dracula, Frankenstein and The Mummy to the slasher icons Jason, Freddy and Leatherface, horror just won’t ...

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    Bourdain

    Laurie Woolever

    New York Times bestseller An unprecedented behindthescenes view into the life of Anthony Bourdain from the people who knew him best When Anthony Bourdain died in June 2018, fa...

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    Riven

    Anne Randall

    A gripping debut psychological novel you won't want to put down.'Assured and clever' The SunFirst he kills.A psychologist is found brutally murdered, an addict jumps to his death a...

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    Unpublishable

    Chris Molnar & Etan Nechin

    “Being alive is just microdosing death.” Collected works from the notorious Brooklyn reading series, from notable and emerging writers alike. A famed underground reading serie...

  • TED Talks by Chris Anderson Summary synopsis, comments

    TED Talks by Chris Anderson Summary

    Summary Life

    Summary of TED Talks by Chris Anderson | Includes Analysis Preview: TED Talks is a comprehensive handbook for learning the nowfamous TED talk style. TED is a worldrenowned conferen...

  • Me, Family and the Making of a Footballer synopsis, comments

    Me, Family and the Making of a Footballer

    Jamie Redknapp

    'a wonderful book ... a great read' Daily Mail'a fascinating book ... I really enjoyed it' Piers Morgan, Good Morning Britain'a heartwarming, funny and insightful read. Perfect for...